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Lloyds Banking Group Logs Rise In Q1 Profit
Tom Burroughes
27 April 2017
today reported underlying profit for the three months to end-March of £2.083 billion, a rise of 1 per cent year-on-year, driven by higher income, cuts to operating costs and lower impairment charges. Today's results gave few details on areas such as wealth management.
Statutory profit before tax increased to £1.304 billion. Statutory profit after tax was £890 million and the return on tangible equity improved to 8.8 per cent (2016: 5.7 per cent).
The Group's CET1 ratio - a main measure of a bank's financial robustness under Basel bank capital rules - widened to 14.3 per cent (31 December 2016: 13.8 per cent).